‘All of our signals started going off. This is not normal’: Former City Council President was at the Pentagon during terrorist attack on September 11

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Thursday marks 24 years since the September 11th terrorist attack in the U.S. Planes crashed into the World Trade Center buildings, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people died that day.

Former Colorado Springs City Council President Randy Helms was in the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into it. He was working under the Defense Secretary, responsible for briefing him on what was happening in Iraq.

“We knew at the time even before 9/11 that there was terrorist threats going on. We didn’t know exactly, but we knew things we’re not good. Something was up,” Helms said.

He said they were trying to determine the threat to us here in the U.S.

“When the first airplane hit at roughly 8:45 in the morning, all of our sig